I am a first-year [http://web.mit.edu/be/ Biological Engineering] (BE, Course XX) graduate student who worked in the [[Endy Lab]] in the summer of 2005. This semester I am finishing the core BE classes and starting to create a thesis project in the Alm lab. I'm the first-year class representative to the [[BE Board | BE student board]], so I am open to suggestions about improving the first-year experience.

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I am a first-year [http://web.mit.edu/be/ Biological Engineering] (BE, Course XX) graduate student and member of the Alm lab. I worked in the [[Endy Lab]] in the summer of 2005. This semester I am finishing the core BE classes and starting to create a thesis project. I'm the first-year class representative to the [[BE Board | BE student board]], so I am open to suggestions about improving the first-year experience.

*B.S.M.E., [http://www.utexas.edu University of Texas at Austin], biomedical technical area

*B.S.M.E., [http://www.utexas.edu University of Texas at Austin], biomedical technical area

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Sean Clarke

saclarke at MIT

I am a first-year Biological Engineering (BE, Course XX) graduate student and member of the Alm lab. I worked in the Endy Lab in the summer of 2005. This semester I am finishing the core BE classes and starting to create a thesis project. I'm the first-year class representative to the BE student board, so I am open to suggestions about improving the first-year experience.

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Projects

My first project was the Orthogonal cloning of clpXP from E. coli into yeast. So far I've been more successful at learning molecular biology and techniques by making mistakes than at cloning into yeast. My work is documented in a lab notebook, but I would like to move to a wiki or other on-line lab notebook for searching, organization, and linking.

Another useful project would be the construction of a low copy number plasmid for use with BioBricks. It might be based on the F or mini-F plasmid from E. coli.